Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-07-15
Application for a Patent.
Kotice No. LA.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Boise City, Idaho, June 81, 1887.

Boise City, Idaho, June 81, 1887.
Notice is hereby given that the Elmira
Silver Mining Com any, by John Brown,
its President and General Manager, whose
posioifice address Is Banner, Boise coun-
ty, Idaho Territory, has made application
for a United States patent for the Banner
lode mining claim and mill site, situated
in Banner Mining District, Boise County,
Idaho Territory, consisting of fifteen hun
dred (l500) linear feet of the lode, and sur
face ground six hundred 5000 feet wide,
being Lot No. 81 A and acres of non
mineral land not contiguous to said lode,
| for a mill site, being Lot No. 81 B, and
described in the field notes and plat of the
official survey ON file in this Office, with
magnetic variation at 10 degrees and 80
minutes East, as follows, in effect substan-
tally and correctly:
! Sand mining claim commencing at the
stake OF post on which is posted the no
! tice of relocation, at point 100 feet in a
westerly direction from the shaft sunk on
| said lode, known as the old Banner shaft
or discovery shaft, and running thence in
| an easterly direction 1900 feet to a similar
stake or post on the line of said lode,
marked East Center Stake together
with 600 feet In width the entire length of
said claim, being 800 feet in width on each
side from the center or middle of said
lode at the surface. Said surface ground
being marked and described as follows, IN
effect. Commencing at point $3.50 feet
from United States mineral monument
No. l, In direction north 81 degrees, 06
minutes east therefrom, the property be-
ing on unsurveyed land-being cor. No.
l, running thence south IA degrees, "a
a. Il 4
IS. W." being cor. No. Q, and passing
through, at a distance of 800 feet IRON the
ioriginal starting point, The west end cen.
ter post or stake on which is posted the
original notice of relocation by the Ell
mira Silver Mining Company, thence
north II degrees % minutes east 1900 feet
TO post marked rs. E." being cor. No
8, thence north IA degrees, 04 minutes
west, across the east end center post OF
stake 600 feet TO a post marked IN. E.
being cor. No. 4, thence south II degrees
% minutes west 1900 feet to post mark
ed IN. W." which is the place of begin
ming, containing an area of 20 59~l0C
acres. This location also covers and in
cludes what is known as the Big Crop
pings, and said mine or Banner lode be
ing situated about thirty miles IN q north
easterly direction from Idaho City, and
about one mile in northeasterly direc
ton from the steam quartz mill owned by
the Elmira Silver Mining Company AL
so the MILL SITE on which stands thu
Banner mill, and known as the Banner
; mill site, located in a triangular shape
Immediately above what was formerl,
called Wolverine Gulch, and Smith
, Fork, and between them, described as fol
lows; Beginning at point $3.50 fee
nom United States mineral monumen
, No. 1, in direction therefrom south 3:
deg. 81 minutes east thence running soutl
26 degrees, 10 minutes east, 574.5 feet TO
post, cor. No. 4, thence north 50 degrees
) 03 minutes west 700 feet TO post al Tia,
junction of the right fork of Bear creel
with the main creek, cor. No l, runnin,
thence north % degrees So minutes cas-
40 feet to post, cor. No. 2, thence nortl
81 degrees east 275.5 feet To post, cor. No
3, which is the place OF beginning; EN-
bracIng an area of five acres The nortl
line OF said mill site being 39507 feet dis
tant from the northwest corner, or col
No. of said Lot No. 81 A, the Banne
lode surface ground, in direction soutl
. SO degrees 10 minutes 80 seconds west
iherefrom; all corners of claim being a
so marked U. 5. l.. 81 A, and all corner
3 of mill site marked u. S. L. 81 b, in add
ton TO No. OF corner.
The said mining claim and mill site b,
ing OF record in the Office Of the Count
/ Recorder OF said mining district, at Idah
City, In Boise County. Idaho Territor,
The nearest known location being the ST
5 yer Chief lode or claim, which Joins III
SAID Banner lode and claim on the west.
Any aud all persons claiming adversel
any portion Of the said Banner lode mil
Ing claim or surface ground, or the mi
: site aforesaid, are required to file their &C
verse claims thereto with the Register {
3 the United States Land Office, at Bots
: City, Idaho Territory, within the sixt
days publication hereof, or they will b
barred by virtue Of the provisions OF tn